Preface

PHP, which stands for "PHP: Hypertext
Preprocessor" is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose
scripting language that is especially suited for web
development and can be embedded into HTML. Its syntax draws
upon C, Java, and Perl, and is easy to learn. The main goal of
the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically
generated web pages quickly, but you can do much more with PHP.

Authors and Contributors

We highlight the currently most active
people on front page of the manual, but there are many more contributors who
currently help in our work or have provided a great amount of help to the project
in the past. There are a lot of unnamed people who help out with user
notes on manual pages, which continually get included in the references, the
work of whom we are also very thankful for. All of the lists provided below are in
alphabetical order.